Read “The Coddling of the American Mind”. It pretty much nails what is going on.

You don't have to "what if" it, people have already looked into it. In "The Coddling of the American Mind" they cite studies showing that universities are more left-leaning than they've ever been.

> In "The Coddling of the American Mind" they cite studies showing that universities are more left-leaning than they've ever been.

What do they mean by 'left-leaning'?: My professors might have been left-leaning, but I rarely knew their politics. The question is what the students are learning.

Also, conservatives have moved far rightward, which might make others relatively more leftish.

Also, reactionaries politicize lots of things, such as climate change. Education and research isn't affirmative action for conservatives - they need to prove their ideas. Climate change denial lacks the science behind it; it shouldn't be taught. That doesn't make climate change education biased toward liberals.

How does the book address those issues? Also, why do you trust that book (an honest question - I haven't heard of it)?

Peter Singer[0] is one of the 3 editors. The editorial board, mostly moral philosophers, includes J.M. Coetzee, Jonathan Glover[1] and Jonathan Haidt[2].

[0] Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics et al.

[1] Author of many books including Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century - one of the most outstanding, horrifying, memorable books I've ever read.

[2] Author of The Happiness Hypothesis (I can't recommend it more highly), The Coddling of the American Mind etc.

That's one of the main findings from the book "The Coddling of the American Mind". Overprotective parents raise children that don't know how to handle conflict, and colleges give in to the student demands for protection from conflict because the colleges care more about collecting tuition than educating.

This is a good time to recommend some supplementary reading: The Coddling of the American Mind[1], a book that does a great job of outlining what has changed in the last 30 years and why there is very much a generational gap at play with how people perceive themselves. It turns out, raising kids in an environment of "safetyism" where nothing ever goes wrong makes full-grown adults really unresilient, and more prone to thinking of themselves as victims.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Coddling-American-Mind-Intentions-Gen...

Jonathan Haidt wrote a book called The Coddling of the American Mind [0]. He'd agree that adults need to give children their freedom back.

He talks about what the consequences for not doing so have been for Zoomers and it is quite worrying: escalating rates of depression and anxiety, increased rates of suicide, fewer friends, even fewer close friends, reduced social trust, more on-campus violence, increased favorability to authoritarian policies.

[0] - He starts the book with a discussion of the title. He initially resisted it because people usually use the word coddled to blame the coddlees but this book very much blames the coddlers.